Daily Scripture Analysis

Please press the hightlighted to listen to the homily or download Fourth Sunday – Year A – Lent Readings: 1 Sam 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Eph 5:8-14; Jn 9:1-41 (9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38). 1/ Reading I: RSV 1 Samuel 16:1 The LORD said to Samuel, I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.” 6 When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, “Surely the LORD’S anointed is before him.” 7 But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, … Read more

Please press the hightlighted to listen to the homily or download Saturday – Third Week – Lent   Readings: Hos 5:15c-6:6; Lk 18:9-14. 1/ First Reading: NAB Hosea 5:15 I will go back to my place until they pay for their guilt and seek my presence. 6:1 In their affliction, they shall look for me: “Come, let us return to the LORD, for it is he who has rent, but he will heal us; he has struck us, but he will bind our wounds. 2 He will revive us after two days; on the third day he will raise us … Read more

Please press the highlighted to listen to the homily or download Friday – Third Week – Lent   Readings: Hos 14:2-10; Mk 12:28b-34. 1/ First Reading: NAB Hosea 14:2 Return, O Israel, to the LORD, your God; you have collapsed through your guilt. 3 Take with you words, and return to the LORD; Say to him, “Forgive all iniquity, and receive what is good, that we may render as offerings the bullocks from our stalls. 4 Assyria will not save us, nor shall we have horses to mount; We shall say no more, ‘Our god,’ to the work of our … Read more

Please press the highlighted to listen to the homily or download Thursday – Third Week – Lent   Readings: Jer 7:23-28; Lk 11:14-23. 1/ First Reading: NAB Jeremiah 7:23 This rather is what I commanded them: Listen to my voice; then I will be your God and you shall be my people. Walk in all the ways that I command you, so that you may prosper. 24 But they obeyed not, nor did they pay heed. They walked in the hardness of their evil hearts and turned their backs, not their faces, to me. 25 From the day that your … Read more

Please press the hightlighted to listen to the homily or download Wednesday – Third Week – Lent Readings: Deut 4:1, 5-9; Mt 5:17-19. 1/ First Reading: NAB Deuteronomy 4:1 “Now, Israel, hear the statutes and decrees which I am teaching you to observe, that you may live, and may enter in and take possession of the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you. 5 Therefore, I teach you the statutes and decrees as the LORD, my God, has commanded me, that you may observe them in the land you are entering to occupy. 6 Observe … Read more

Please press the hightlighted to listen to the homily or download Tuesday – Third Week – Lent   Readings: Dan 3:25, 34-43; Mt 18:21-35. 1/ First Reading: NAB Daniel 3:25 In the fire Azariah stood up and prayed aloud: 34 For your name’s sake, do not deliver us up forever, or make void your covenant. 35 Do not take away your mercy from us, for the sake of Abraham, your beloved, Isaac your servant, and Israel your holy one, 36 To whom you promised to multiply their offspring like the stars of heaven, or the sand on the shore of … Read more